Top management team shared leadership and organizational ambidexterity: A moderated mediation framework

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 128-148

  Mihalache, Oli R ^a,b   Jansen, Justin J P ^c   Van den Bosch, Frans A J ^c   Volberda, Henk W ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VU University   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambidexterity; Centralization; Connectedness; Cooperative conflict management style; Decision making comprehensiveness; TMT shared leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901819104     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1168     Document Type: Article

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